733 Total Quotes
Henry+David Thoreau Quotes
Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
If one advances confidently in the direction of one's dreams, and endeavors to live the life which one has imagined, one will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.
I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent
Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioning ability of man to evaluate his life by a conscious endeavor
In wilderness is the preservation of the world.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.